The Road Division is responsible for the repair and maintenance of the Borough roadways. This includes at total of 81 miles of roadway. Maintenance includes street signs, pot hole repair, assisting Sewer and Water Divisions with closing holes at construction sites, plowing, loose leaf collection and street sweeping. 

SNOW NOTICE:
The Department of Public Works requests that homeowners remove their vehicles from the roadway when it snows in order to facilitate snow-plowing operations.  The following is Fair Lawn D.P.W.'s snow plowing and street salting procedures:  

     Once it starts to snow, the Road Department will dispatch salt trucks to begin salting the County Roads and the designated Emergency Snow Routes.  After these roads are made safe and passable, the secondary roads will be salted, if it is deemed necessary. This decision will be made based upon continuing weather conditions. Roads will be plowed in the following order:

1: County, designated, and posted Emergency Snow Routes

2: Emergency Services Buildings (Fire Houses, Ambulance Corps, Rescue Squad, etc.)

3: All secondary roads

4: Parking Lots

     Each snowplow vehicle has been assigned a section to plow and will remain in that section until all roadways have been sufficiently cleaned. This may require the snowplow vehicle to make multiple passes on each street*.  Borough forces will be plowing each street from curb to curb during each snowfall. On occasion, due to the lack of areas between the sidewalk and curb, sidewalks and driveway aprons may become covered with snow that falls off the snowplow blade. Borough forces will not remove snow from any sidewalk or driveway apron in these instances. Please do not call the Borough Hall in this event. We regret this unfortunate inconvenience to any/all homeowners.

ORDINANCE NO. 1652-96 states the following:

     No person, firm or corporation, owner, tenant or occupant of any premises on any street shall throw, place or deposit any snow or ice into or upon any street in the Borough of Fair Lawn.

     Any violation of this Ordinance may result,  upon conviction, in one (1) or more of the following penalties:

1: A fine not to exceed $1,000

2: Imprisonment not to exceed 90 day’s, or

3: Community Service not to exceed 90 days

   (All penalties are at the discretion of the Municipal Judge)

 *This provision may change due to weather conditions and breakdowns of snow plow and vehicular equipment.

     Additionally, homeowners / lessees are responsible to maintain a clear area around any fire hydrants that are within 5 feet of their property.  This includes snow.   

     C. Access to fire hydrants. To ensure access to fire hydrants in the Borough of Fair Lawn for the safety and welfare of the public, a clear area of five feet must be maintained in all directions from the hydrant as well as meeting the roadside parking requirements.

     (1) The owner or lessee of any property within five feet of a fire hydrant shall be responsible to see that a five-foot clear space is provided in all directions from the fire hydrant. The requirements of this section shall be completed by the responsible party not later than 12 hours after any natural obstruction such as snow shall prevent access to the fire hydrant and within one hour of any other type of obstruction.

     (2) Upon the failure of any person in maintaining the five feet clear space from all fire hydrants in accordance with Subsection C(1) hereof, the Fire Chief of the Borough of Fair Lawn may cause such space to be cleared in accordance with the provisions thereof, in which event all costs incurred by the municipality in connection therewith shall become a lien upon said lands and be added to and form a part of the taxes next to be assessed and levied thereon and shall be collected as other real property taxes.

     Remember, the Borough Ordinance requires that the hydrant be clear in all directions....

 

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